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irishtexan

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  1. I'll add that a few of my friends from Chicago got sick of some of the big-city bullshit that comes with living there and moved to Milwaukee. They absolutely love it there. I've visited there 4 or 5 times and I've always had a blast. It's basically Chicago's northern-most "suburb" but with it's own identity. It's got a lot of the good shit you'll find in Chicago without the big-city bullshit. However, while you think "I'm only 90 minutes from downtown Chicago" you will not go to Chicago as much as you think unless you have a specific reason to go there. This same thinking may apply to Jersey's access to the eastern seaboard, but I bet you'd be more inclined to take weekend trips to NYC, Boston, Baltimore, DC, etc. People from Milwaukee don't typically take weekend getaways down to Chicago.
  2. Oh, you're one of those olds, huh? "These uppity athletes need to act like they've been there before. Back in my day Otto Graham just handed the football back to the referee politely after he scored the only touchdown of the game on a two-yard keeper. Three yards and a cloud of dust is the pinnacle of football."
  3. Didn’t ctj just say that cooks transferred out because his teammates were talking about what they were getting in NIL and he wasn’t getting shit so he portal’d?
  4. Shit. I forgot Michael B Jordan was in that. He's probably a bigger "star" than Jesse Plemons, but I think Jesse Plemons is viewed as the more "serious" actor.
  5. Also, a bunch of actors from Friday Night Lights have been mentioned, and I would not have predicted that Landry would go on to be the biggest star of the show. Jesse Plemons is emerging as a real fucking heavyweight actor. I'd bet he wins an oscar in the next five years.
  6. This is a good one. And he's actually in the middle of a little renaissance. He got fat and depressed and pretty much quit acting for like a decade. But he's been really good in some good shit lately, like "No Sudden Moves" and he'll be in Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon." I like redemption stories like this. https://www.gq.com/story/brendan-fraser-career-renaissance-killers-of-the-flower-moon Hail the Brendan Fraser Renaissance Brendan Fraser, Mummy Vanquisher is gone. Meet Brendan Fraser, prestigious actor. BY FRAZIER THARPE October 25, 2021 Brendan Fraser attends 'No Sudden Move' during 2021 Tribeca Festival at The Battery on June 18, 2021 in New York City.Courtesy of Santiago Felipe for Getty Images. “Whatever happened to Brendan Fraser?” was a popular refrain during much of the 2010s, when the one-time blockbuster star all but vanished from the spotlight. Then in 2018, GQ finally asked the source; the answers were unexpectedly moving and emotionally charged. Yet it also didn’t quite seem as if a resurgence was on the horizon: Fraser had a solid role in the underrated FX drama Trust; performances on cult shows like Doom Patrol followed. But his dashing, mummy-defeating days were clearly behind him. And yet now we seem to be entering, improbable as it is, Fraser’s comeback era. It started with A24, as good film news usually does these days. The studio acquired Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, which will feature Fraser as a 600 pound-man who lies in a bathtub binge-eating out of “guilt,” which, honestly, sounds like a pretty weird watch. But, hey, Fraser and Aronofsky, we’ll take it! Things only go up from there. When Steven Soderbergh revealed he cast approximately 15 of the coolest actors alive for his new crime thriller No Sudden Move, Brendan Fraser’s name in the mix was a surprising but welcome sight. As one of the shadowy go-betweens who kicks off the film’s inciting incident, he more than acquits himself amidst the players who we’re used to seeing in gritty crime stories like this. Which may be how he landed on Martin Scorcese’s radar—Fraser will be part of the troupe for Killers of the Flower Moon alongside De Niro, Leo, and probable new heavyweight Oscar contender Jesse Plemons. And now, Big Fras is getting in on the superhero gold rush: he'll star opposite Leslie Grace in the upcoming Barbara Gordon/Batgirl solo film from directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (best known for helming Bad Boys For Life). The word, which is at this time, still unconfirmed, is that he'll play the DC villain Firefly. How did this happen? Fraser himself is as surprised and grateful as anyone, judging from a video that went viral this week of him tearing up when told that fans are rooting for him. But he seems to have shrewdly re-molded his image and expanded his range. He doesn’t have the figure or the agility to be Rick O’Connell again, vanquishing CGI hordes of evil as a Club Monaco version of Indiana Jones. In No Sudden Move he’s unlike you’ve ever seen him before—an irritable, hulking heavy whose presence bodes danger and uncertainty. It’s far from the affable guy who typically toggled between dorky, affable and action/adventure.
  7. Is there anything better than leftover fried chicken thighs straight from the fridge?
  8. People are great, for the most part. Midwestern hospitality. Friendly. Funny. I loved it there. I love going back to visit in the summers. I just couldn't stomach the winters anymore and was at somewhat of a dead-end career-wise where I couldn't afford to buy a decent place in Chicago. At this point in my life I'd be more open to living in one of the burbs immediately bordering the city like Oak Park or Evanston where you can still get into the city relatively easy via the El or the Metra. But the schools make it difficult to live in the city. They're very bad. You'd almost have to put your kids in private school.
  9. I think we'll have more than 2-3 players drafted in the next two years, but I think they'll be late-round picks based on athletic potential rather than production. I could see the following players drafted who would be draft eligible in the next two years. I do not believe all these dudes will get drafted. In fact, most won't. I just think it's possible: BJ Foster Anthony Cook Cade Brewer (Swaim got drafted and I think they're pretty comparable. Noticed Swaim didn't rep UT last night in the Sunday Night Football intro) Josh Thompson D'Shawn Jamison Overshown Coburn Ojomo Bijan Alfred Collins Regardless, you're correct. We don't have a ton of talent on this roster.
  10. Chicago's cold as fuck. Like so fucking cold. That's why we left. Also, I didn't want to have to live through the winters living in the suburbs. And the non-magnet schools are pretty terrible regardless of where you live, if you're in the city limits. Also, the taxes are insane. But everything else about the city is awesome. Incredible food. So much fun shit to do. Tons of culture. And perfect summers. The summers are incredible.
  11. Ohio State did not want him to do this at all. They wanted him to stay in high school and play this year. They already had a 5 star QB in the 2021 class and Ewers enrolled too late to actually practice with the team, learn the playbook, or make any sort of contribution. It actually kinda fucked up their QB room. Which is good because fuck tOSU
  12. He was a year older than everyone else in his grade, so technically he was the same "age" as the rest of the incoming freshman class. But yeah, he did skip out on his senior year and went to college after only three years of high school. Guess when someone offers you a cool million to "sign autographs" that makes the decision pretty easy.
  13. My hope is that she was knocked unconscious or killed upon impact before the car exploded into flames and she burned alive.
  14. Here's what Borachio said in his post that I quoted: So if you live in Austin, it's an hour and fifteen-ish out to Lexington. You'd have to leave at 4am to get there by 5:15/5:30am, then wait until 10am to order. Take your seat and start eating at 10:15. That's 6.25 hours for a meal of bbq. 6.25 hours that starts BEFORE 4am. No thanks.
  15. Definitely seems like post was written by the corresponding avatar
  16. I’m sorry but that’s fucking insane. I’ll never do that for any food, no matter how good it is. Unless I’m literally starving in a food line. Five hour wait to eat? When you have to wake up and leave at like 4am. Hell nah.
  17. An absolutely fantastic contradiction within the first 5 sentences. Casey is OK and would be good with talent around him, but he can't hit wide-open WRs. Got it.
  18. Counterpoint - why the fuck would he sign up for this shit show and be the one forced to recruit all the good OL to UT?
  19. He eventually ran out of money doing all of the drugs in Austin and had to sell the house. I think his ex-wife got involved and helped him get into rehab or something. He sold the house. I wonder what the inside looked like when he finally left that place.
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